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Show ''BIJG" THAT MADE GOOD j In it shop at Rosebank, Staten j Island, or.e evening recently Albert S... Janin, cabinetmaker, took off his . apron.' walked up to the foreman and feVW"" " resiied the job he had held for 14 C:vV X i years, as his fellow workmen crowded il arcund with beaming faces. ISffS .: : ; "Congratulations, Al." said the mf- f foreman, and from somewhere in the ' orowd spoke one of Janin's intimates: W ,.;--,''--.-( "'t!! ."The 'Bug' has made good. vJpO' f Whaddaya know about that?" j- That afternoon word had been ' - received from Wafhington that the -x ' board of examiners-in-chief of the pat- -55; cut office had decided unanimously 'V, 4 that the man who made the hydro- V: ;':,,' -vMn" ' 'j aeroplane possible was not Glenn H. ' :.':); Curtiss, but Albert S. Janin. the poor cabinet-maker of Staten Island. J :&fi. . ?? :: ?;PP? "We put it over, didn't we, moth- . v v." rv t, 8r? Janin said that evening, affec- ' Monately patting his wife. "If it lSBTimSH3ra3HXS hadn't been that she stuck to me I i-i 3 .S3 j believed in me, when all the rest were ) poking fun and scoffing I never would have made it. The best part of this ' invention la tht, aiilike a whole lot of others, it's going to bring us aioney K9bs of it.' 0' |